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It wasn’t until I went to Varanasi, India, that the blue and gold silk sari with the intricate flower design that my parents bought me when I got engaged 15 years ago meant something beyond just another gift. At the … Read More

MALAKAL, South Sudan — In places where the fighting is fiercest, no one is even attempting to count the dead. Nearly half the population of the world’s newest nation, South Sudan, is in danger of going hungry. New atrocities are … Read More

Thousands of children are being trafficked from India’s remote rural areas and sold into work in cities, often as domestic staff for wealthy families. Anti-slavery activists say thousands of children are going missing from some of India’s remote tribal areas … Read More

Since the April earthquake, teams have braved landslides and aftershocks to document the damage to Nepal’s antiquities as well as begin efforts to secure and restore them. BY Rajneesh Bhandari and Jonah M. Kessel | May. 20, 2015

There’s poor, and then there’s ultrapoor. The ultrapoor are almost always women and largely found in Africa, South Asia and to a lesser extent, parts of Latin America. They are most often rural. They work as maids or field laborers, … Read More

RAMKOT, Nepal — The earthquake shook the sprawling Buddhist nunnery near this village in the western valley of Kathmandu so violently that the nuns jumped through shattered glass windows, smashed open rattling doors and dived over a collapsing staircase. They … Read More

Hello to all supporters of the work of 100 Friends, In light of the horrendous 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked Nepal with devastating force on Saturday, killing thousands and injuring many more – 100 Friends has created a fund to … Read More

MATT WAGE was a brilliant, earnest student at Princeton University, a star of the classroom and a deep thinker about his own ethical obligations to the world. His senior thesis won a prize as the year’s best in the philosophy … Read More

CAROL A. GIACOMO / THE NEW YORK TIMES BHESDA KHURD, India — To begin to understand the hurdles Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces in building India into an economic powerhouse and reducing extreme poverty, the rural village of Bhesda Khurd, … Read More

Dear Friends and Supporters of 100 Friends. Greetings from Thailand. It seems incredible that it’s been 25 years since 100 Friends began. From the start until now, we’ve raised more than $1.3 million and the work goes on thanks to … Read More